Astonishing Unfinished Pagoda of Mingun - MANDALAY, MYANMAR
TIME STAMPS: 6:19 Boats at Shore of Irrawaddy River; 7:40 Buying Ferry Ticket to Mingun; 13:02 Boarding the Ferry; 24:07 Docking at Mingun; 26:34 Giant Guardian Lions at Mingun; 37:48 The Unfinished Pagoda; 41:26 Massive Rear Door; 44:26 Astonishing Side Entrance; 46:15 The Stairs on the Unfinished Pagoda; 47:33 Ninety Tons of Bell; 53:29 Beautiful Myatheindan Pagoda; 1:00:10 Back on the Boat; 1:03:43 Summary and Conclusion
A mere ten-kilometer boat ride from Mandalay lies what some people call the largest pile of bricks in the world at Mingun. This astonishing pile of bricks was intended to be the largest pagoda in the world. It was never finished, and it was badly damaged in an earthquake. Yet, what remains is an incredible sight.
Guarding the entrance to the pagoda are two equally massive chinthe - the mythical creatures that protect pagodas in Myanmar. Both have lost their heads, but they are impressive even without them. And nearby is a 90-ton bell that once held the record as the largest functioning bell in the world. Next to that is the gorgeous Myatheindan Pagoda all in white.
As an easy morning trip from a jetty on the Irrawaddy River, you couldn't ask for more. In fact, just the boat ride to get to Mingun was an attraction in itself. It is a test of your balance to walk the planks just to get to the boat.
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Mingun Pahtodawgyi Pagoda in Mingun, Myanmar
Astonishing Unfinished Pagoda of MIN GUN | MYA THEIN TAN PAGODA | SAGAING - MYANMAR
The Mingun Pahtodawgyi is an incomplete monument stupa in Mingun, approximately 10 kilometres northwest of Mandalay in Sagaing Region in central Myanmar. The ruins are the remains of a massive construction project begun by King Bodawpaya in 1790 which was intentionally left unfinished.
The Hsinbyume Pagoda also known as Myatheindan Pagoda is a large pagoda on the northern side of Mingun in Sagaing Region in Myanmar, on the western bank of the Irrawaddy River. It is approximately 10 kilometres northwest of Mandalay and is located in the proximity of the Mingun Pahtodawgyi.
Mandalay and its amazing white pagoda
We arrived in Mandalay with one aim in mind, finding the Hsinbyume white pagoda of Myanmar or the Taj Mahal of Myanmar like others call it. But getting to it wasn't possible in the first day of our stay in Mandalay so we started exploring the city instead.
We visited the biggest book in the world, some impressive temples and the sunset caught us at the U-Bein bridge.
The next day we took a river cruise on the Irrawaddy river and got to Mingun where we got to see with our own eyes the amazing Hsinbyume Pagoda and the Pahtodawgyi Temple.
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เป็นเจดีย์ที่สร้างไม่เสร็จ ถ้าสร้างเสร็จจะสูง 150 เมตร และสูงที่สุดในโลก
Myanmar/Beautiful magic Mingun (Mandalay-Myanmar) Part 14
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Mingun-Mandalay
Mingun is a town in Sagaing Region, northwest Myanmar (Burma), located 11 km up the Ayeyarwady River on the west bank from Mandalay. Its main attraction is the ruined Mingun Pahtodawgyi.
The Mingun temple is a monumental uncompleted stupa began by King Bodawpaya in 1790. It was not completed, due to an astrologer claiming that, once the temple was finished, the king would die. The completed stupa would have been the largest in the world at 150 metres (490 ft). Huge cracks are visible on the structure from the earthquake of 23 March 1839. Like many large pagodas in Myanmar, a pondaw paya or working model of the stupa can be seen nearby.
King Bodawpaya also had a gigantic bell cast to go with his huge stupa, the Mingun Bell weighing 90 tons, and is today the largest ringing bell in the world. The weight of the bell in Burmese measurement, is 55,555 viss or peiktha (1 viss = 1.63 kg), handed down as a mnemonic Min Hpyu Hman Hman Pyaw, with the consonants representing the number 5 in Burmese astronomy and numerology.
The Mingun Bell is a bell located in Mingun, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. It is located approximately 11 km (6.8 mi) north of Mandalay on the western bank of the Irrawaddy River. It was the heaviest functioning bell in the world at several times in history.At 90 tons, the Mingun Bell reigned as the largest ringing bell in the world until 2000, when it was eclipsed by the 116-ton Bell of Good Luck at the Foquan Temple, Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
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The Mingun temple is a monumental uncompleted stupa began by King Bodawpaya in 1790. It was not completed, due to an astrologer claiming that, once the temple was finished, the king would die.[citation needed] The completed stupa would have been the largest in the world at 150 metres (490 ft). Huge cracks are visible on the structure from the earthquake of 23 March 1839. Like many large pagodas in Myanmar, a pondaw paya or working model of the stupa can be seen nearby.
Hsinphyumae Pagoda:
Just a couple of hundred yards from the great stupa and bell lies the beautiful white Hsinbyume or Myatheindan Pagoda with a distinctive architectural style modelled after the mythical Mount Meru (Myinmo taung), built in 1816 by Bodawpaya's grandson and successor Bagyidaw and dedicated to the memory of his first consort Princess Hsinbyume (Lady of the White Elephant, granddaughter of Bodawpaya, 1789--1812) who died in childbirth.
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Hsinbyume Pagoda | MOST Beautiful Pagoda in Myanmar?
Today is our 2nd full day exploring #Mandalay and we hire another taxi driver to take us to some must see spots outside of the city.
We get an early start and drive about 1 hour across the river to #Mingun and our first stop is at the beautiful Hsinbyume Pagoda. This pagoda is even better in person than all of the many photos we have seen online. We are here early enough to nearly have the place to ourselves.
Next up it is breakfast time and we tell our taxi driver we want to go somewhere that has good Mohinga which is a classic breakfast dish in #Myanmar.
After breakfast we head right across the street to the Mingun Bell which is the second largest bell in the world and weighs 90 tons.
The Mingun Bell was actually cast to be used in the Mingun Pahtodawgyi which is our 3rd stop. This is a massive unfinished pagoda built at the end of the 1700's that was meant to be the largest pagoda in the country at 150 meters tall. For one reason or another construction stopped on the stupa at around 50 meters which is how it sits today.
From Mingun we head about 1 hour south to #Sagaing which is a beautiful hill covered in colorful temples.
Finally, our last stop before heading back to Mandalay is in #Amarapura at the U Bein Bridge. This bridge is 1.2KM long and is made completely out of teak wood.
We head back to our hotel and get packed up because tomorrow we are heading to Thailand! We have had such an incredible 2 weeks in Myanmar and cannot believe our time here is coming to an end! :(:(:(
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Myanmar. Mingun, View From the top of Mingun Pagoda
La estupa incompleta de Mingun Pahtodawgyi (Myanmar)
Sin lugar a dudas lo que más llama la atención de Mingun es la enorme estupa incompleta rajada por las consecuencias de los terremotos de antaño, esta estupa incompleta se llama Mingun Pahtodawgyi, también llamada estupa Mingun Paya y pagoda Mantara Gyi. La construcción de este monumento comenzó en el año 1790, dice la leyenda que se ralentizaron los trabajos de construcción en el proyecto debido a la creencia que una vez completada la estupa el imperio Birmano desaparecería. Sin embargo los historiadores apuntan al hecho de que este proyecto no era muy popular debido al uso de mano de obra esclava y prisioneros de guerra a gran escala, lo que provocaba la falta de fuerza de trabajo en otras áreas de la zona. Finalmente tras la muerte del rey Bodawpaya en el año 1819 el proyecto se canceló.
Mandalay Pahtodawgyi Pagoda Festival
မႏၱေလးတိုင္း အမရပူရၿမိဳ႕နယ္က ေတာင္သမန္အင္းေစာင္းမွာ ႏွစ္စဥ္က်င္းပတဲ့ မဟာဝိဇယ-ရံသီ ပုထိုးေတာ္ႀကီးဘုရားပြဲမွာ ဒုန္းႏြား လို႔ေခၚတဲ့ ႏြားၿပိဳင္ပြဲကို ထည့္သြင္းက်င္းပ လာခဲ့တာ သံုးႏွစ္ရွိၿပီ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာ့ရိုးရာ ႏြားၿပိဳင္ပဲြအေၾကာင္း RFA သတင္းေထာက္ မသီရိမင္းဇင္က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။
Sagaing & Mingun Myanmar, October 29 & 30, 2015
Tour of two Pagodas in Sagaing and a walking tour in Mingun.
Mingun Pahtodawgyi Pagoda
Mingun-Pahtodawgyi Pagoda
The first photo is the remains of two enormous statues of lions on the bank of the Ayeyarwaddy River in front of the Pagoda. The pagoda is known as the world's largest unfinished pagoda. It was one of the big four built by King Bodawpaya around the place. The work started in 1791 and was intentionally left unfinished. It was stopped at 49 meters height. If the construction had been completed, it would have been the largest in the world at 150 meters. There are all together 174 steps to climb to the top. The scenery is marvelous from the top of the Pagoda. You can view natural scenic beauty of Ayeyarwaddy river and green and pleasant Minwun Hill. This pagoda was badly damaged with cracks by the earthquake of 1839.
Mingun-Mya Theindan Pagoda or Hsinbyume Pagoda and the Mingun Bell
King Bodawpaya had this big bronze bell built in 1808. He dedicated himself to constructing a gigantic Pagoda, a gigantic bell and a gigantic lion during his reign. But he was not able to complete the pagoda. The Mingun Bell is the world's largest ringing bell, the bell in Moscow is larger but is cracked and doesn't ring. It weighs 55,555 viss (90 tons) and is about 13 feet tall. It was floated up the Irrawady on 2 barges and these were manouvered to the current position by a system of trenches that were filled the drained to position the bell. It was knocked off its supports by the earthquake of 1839. It was resuspended by the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in 1896.
Mya Theindan Pagoda was built by King Bagyidaw in 1816, three years before he succeeded to the throne, in memory of his favourite wife the Hsinbyume Princess.It is built as a representation of the Sulamani Pagoda and in accordance to the Buddhist cosmology, the Pagoda stands atop the mythical Mount Meru. The seven terraces around the pagoda represent the seven mountain ranges around Mount Meru. This pagoda was badly damaged in 1838 by an earth quake but King Mindon restored it in 1874.
Mingun giant pagoda
Mingun giant pagoda
Mingun Bell Myanmar
One of the biggest bells in the world
Pagoda Hsinbyume Myatheindan (Myanmar)
La Pagoda Hsinbyume, también llamada pagoda Myatheindan. Ubicada en la zona arqueológica de Mingun, muy cerca de la ciudad de Mandalay (Myanmar).
Mingun Pahtodawgyi | Mandalay | https://vietnamtour.co.za/